Robber hits Alton Farm Fresh

Published 10:35 pm, Monday, May 16, 2016

ALTON — A milk store that robbers have hit several times over the years, once again had an armed man demand money from a clerk and escape with an undisclosed amount of cash.

The holdup, at the Farm Fresh at 3201 Fosterburg Road — just north of Wonderland Drive inside Alton city limits — happened shortly before 10 p.m. Friday, according to scanner traffic.

Alton police did not respond to multiple calls from the Telegraph throughout Monday requesting information on the armed robbery.

The store reportedly was closed earlier this year but reopened a few months ago.

Robbers have hit the store from time to time over the years.

In likely the strangest incident among the robberies, a woman wielding a small-caliber handgun held up the store Dec. 10, 2007. She returned a week later, reportedly telling clerks she planned to mail the store repayment for the money she had taken.

The woman, though, was wearing the same bandana over her face and police believed she had intended to rob the Farm Fresh a second time, but backed down when she saw a woman and child in the store and escaped again.